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title: Malachi 3:7 (JPS 1917) — Return unto Me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. · tree and pragmatics
description: Return unto Me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. Who acts: you, I, LORD. Malachi 3:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Malachi 3:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3

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Return unto Me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

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**Who acts:** you, I, LORD · **What happens:** return, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Malachi 3:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 3 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, LORD), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:MAL:51
# text = Return unto Me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
1	Return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request, form=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto Me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | future | I |  |  |  |  | unto you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD of hosts |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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לְמִימֵ֨י אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֜ם סַרְתֶּ֤ם מֵֽחֻקַּי֙ וְלֹ֣א שְׁמַרְתֶּ֔ם שׁ֤וּבוּ אֵלַי֙ וְאָשׁ֣וּבָה אֲלֵיכֶ֔ם אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם בַּמֶּ֥ה נָשֽׁוּב׃

[Malachi 3:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from Mine ordinances, and have not kept them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.50/)
2. **Return unto Me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.**
3. [But ye say: 'Wherein shall we return?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.52/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:MAL:51` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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